I think what the story decided was that the entire thing was a bloody mess but that neither Jaina nor Vereesa nor the Horde in general should be blamed and the focused on the blame was put squarely on Garrosh.
And unless the blood elves want another faction war they, like Jaina, have to move on.
Thatâs where we disagree. I donât believe the story let Jaina, Vereesa, or the Horde completely off the hook, even if Garrosh still got the lionâs share of the blame.
Storywise, the Purge has been 10+years, which is also how long it has been real time wise. The story has literally told us to move on from it. Now all that remains is Aethas actually making up for his part in all of this.
Maybe this will change, but I doubt it as long as Blizzard is intent on creating a cross faction environment and not starting another faction war.
No, if Aethas needs to make up for his part, then so does Jaina. And Aethas has done more in that direction than she has, by offering Feloâmelorn to the Kirin Tor in Legion. You can say thatâs only going halfway because that was to the Kirin Tor in general and not Jaina in particular, but Jaina has not even gone halfway. And Vereesa has likewise done zero in the way of atonement gestures.
Yet Iâm sure Vareesa is still allowed to pilgrimage to Silvermoon to visit the sunwell, man has this all gotten so messy.
so one gnome?
baine warned everyone to leave.
they left.
garrosh captured them and they were still alive when Jaina decided that orc children needed to drown to death.
You know there were more then that.
Not everyone left. and considering how Seige ended Garrosh wouldnât have cared if the civilians left/would have turned them into target practice dummy. Ultimately, it was all a ruse by Garrosh anyway to KILL MORE PEOPLE. Specifically the warriors of the Alliance. Luckily he is dead and all we have to remind us of him is a small plot of land in Northrend. Good riddance.
Only to torture them.
Jaina already did her whole redemption arch and was tossed in Thros for it.
She along with Lotherâmar decided to not pursue any further conflict. She has gone far beyond what should be expect of her. Similar to Vereesa.
And what has Vareesa done though? Sheâs done really nothing in the narrative besides like what? Helping the hunter get her sisters bow? Or choosing not to die and join Syl in UC? Vareesa I havenât seen really do anything that would be considered going above and beyond
She may have mentally come to terms with it, but that does nothing to make it up to those she hurt.
Aethas wasnât pursuing further conflict either, so by that metric he doesnât need to do anything.
The same goes to the Horde. What have they ever done to try and make up for Theramore?
Blizzard seems to disagree. Hence, why we are all talking about this again. Right now we just have to wait and see if this whole music box thing will actually lead to anything. Or not.
And we see how well that decision turned out, turns out she wouldâve been vindicated for killing him because she wouldâve spared us from Wrathions machinations.
And if Wrathionâs machination didnât take place the Legion would have corrupted the Titans and we would all be dead.
This was even mentioned during the questline about why we should choose him or Sabellian. Yes his whole Iron Horde plan was stupid, but his actions did ultimately lead to us defeating the Legion and saving all of creation.
Come now thatâs only something that was retconned from the titans being dead, if the legion hadnât been the expansion after WoD more than likely the titans wouldnât have come up. Plus Sargeras already had how many thousands of years to successfully corrupt them? Whatâs few more.
Well this is the canon lore we have now. Even ignoring that little plot point, we still beat the Legion that much sooner because of Wrathionâs failed plan and saved countless worlds in the process.
Except we know time worked differently in Argus and a few years more on Azeroth would be a thousand years in Argus. I would also point they had already suceeded with one of the titans.
Iâll chalk that up to blizzard just not wanting Wrathion to seem like a complete idiot, didnât change that perspective for me but you are right it is the lore because thatâs the story Blizzard told for it.
Is this a joke? Lmao.
This is not a joke because when they turned on Garrosh they did so to save their own skins. Not to try and make up for all the harm they did.
Was this the Alliance mage Feloâmelorn quest? because it is I highly doubt the canoncity of it, it makes far more sense for the Horde version, aka being given the quest by Aethas, because this allows him to connect to Modera who wa still secretly in contact with him even though he was still in exile. And this is why they should probably let us know which faction version is the âcanonâ version of events because that makes a lore difference.
Vereesa was merely an Alliance stand in for a Horde centric quest, The Horde and the Blood Elves recovered Feloâmelorn not the Scarlet Covenant.